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Ruburt is more stable a personality than he knows, and thus he can now handle himself without dependence upon artificial supports such as his smoking. He will find that work on his book will go very well, smoothly. [...]

As the springtime progresses this will be an excellent time for Ruburt to cease his smoking, as his abilities renew themselves. [...]

[...] He should keep a close watch upon his smoking now, and immediately after his birthday he should break the habit completely. [...]

[...] I heartily suggest that he seriously begin to tackle the smoking problem, for his health in many small but significant ways will benefit.

He does need to put his full weight on his feet more, though last week was a good compromise for now—but overall the body has been more exercised. You must both be on guard against comparing his walking with normal walking.

[...] At Ruburt’s last visit to your dentist, both of you decided that his position was embarrassing, that it put you both in a bad light, that his condition spoke of invisible defects. [...]

[...] You did not particularly want to be seen with Ruburt in his condition. [...]

[...] This chair (indicated), being used to get from room to room, was at that point creative, and it got him involved in the household again, and greatly added to the exercise given the legs over the entire day, for sometimes he walked to the bathroom three times in the winter, but for the rest of the day his motion was most limited.

Such an optimist will of course not be blind, and he will see that there are indeed many blemishes in the world; but his overall faith not only sustains him, but because of his own state of mind his creativity blossoms to whatever degree he has it. [...]

[...] You see it as morally wrong, not simply a physically poor condition, but a morally reprehensible one, reflecting upon Ruburt’s integrity, his knowledge, his understanding.

[...] Of course, his body does not realize that the pessimist’s views are the most intelligent, proper, sane and reasonable, and so it falls ill because the mind tells the body it has nothing to look forward to.

[...] Ruburt first of all thought of how he could get his socks and shoes on, but then he tried to overcome those thoughts, and imagine the trip.(Sayre, PA—my home town.)

[...] Seth once humorously commented that his way of speaking was actually due to his own “cosmopolitan background,” acquired through many lifetimes. [...]

[...] In like manner, mankind has a tendency to project his own guilt and his own errors upon a father-god image, who it seems must grow weary of so many complaints.

[...] Ruburt is working on two books of his own and must get his sleep. [...]

(Before the session, Jane said she felt rather nervous; she thought Seth would start his own book this evening. [...]

[...] His joy and vitality were obvious. [...] My normally feminine gestures were replaced by his. [...] When he spoke of the joy of existence, ringing even through such a voice as his, that deep voice boomed. [...]

[...] The reader will have to make his own judgments, but personally I do accept his theories as valid and significant.

[...] I borrow Ruburt’s [Seth’s name for me; in addition, Seth always speaks of me as male] with his consent, but what I am is not dependent upon atoms and molecules and what you are is not dependent upon physical matter. [...]

[...] Through sessions he has helped friends, strangers, and students, and by following his instructions my husband and I are learning to develop our own psychic potentials.

In the data he would often differentiate between his impressions and any of mine that had slipped in, connect mine to their source in personal associations, and tell us whether or not they were legitimate. [...] Sometimes it seems I merge with Seth, feeling his emotions and reactions completely, rather than my own. [...]

[...] I was sure he’d have to admit that they were encouraging, even if they didn’t involve his own experiments with us. We’d already begun his series of tests and were sending the results to him each week. [...]

We were in the middle of a Seth session and Seth was giving his impressions of the Gallaghers’ trip. [...]

[...] I didn’t see his face. [...]

[...] Before this latest episode that upset him showed, Important releases in the hip sockets occurred, with hardly any notice on his part. [...] The amount of new motion there was minute but vitally important if his stance upward were to improve. [...]

Ruburt’s return to his writing will again trigger psychic response and creativity. With that work the comparatively few visitors will fall by the wayside in importance, and Ruburt’s condition will improve more smoothly, with his main concentration elsewhere. [...]

[...] The individual shouts that his life does indeed have meaning, while the scientists until now have vehemently stated otherwise. [...]

[...] Like many others, his religious background held out nonsensical propositions. [...]

[...] His overall concerns of course to some extent blocked his creative processes, which further alarmed him. The main issue here is that feeling of responsibility again, so that he writes or whatever because he loves to do it, not because he should or must, and that involves my books as well as his own. [...]

[...] When Jane called him the lawyer told Jane that his client was a 27-year-old schizophrenic who’d confessed to killing a certain woman he’d met in a Seth class both attended some years ago. [...] Jane didn’t ask for details on the case, but instead explained to the lawyer something of Seth’s ideas so that the attorney could use that material in his defense, making it clear that above all Seth was not for violence, even though the prosecuting attorney was evidently trying to make the defendant sound as though it was okay to kill because reincarnation was a fact: Since we all lived other lives, no one could really kill anyone. [...]

[...] For both events obviously involved effects her work was having in that outside world we shied away from: Seth, it seemed, had even managed to make his way into a court of law, the very fabric of our society; and regardless of whether he was praised or knocked, his ideas were “officially” discussed. [...]

(Jane was angered by this material [the second batch; I’d already sent Tam the first communication, asking for his help], and decided to call the medium, Thomas Massari, since a number was listed. [...]

He was quite correct in assuming as he did that his upset had little to do with a lack of chairs, since he knew perfectly well that a sufficiency was available. [...] The mayor is also to be present upon this occasion, and Ruburt thought subconsciously how pleased her friend, Edward Briscoe, would be in his simple way—in the old days—to be present, and how impressed he would be with the mayor.

[...] We also compare it with the number 12 data, wherein the numerals in the dentist’s address became scrambled with the idea of people in his waiting room. Only now, it appears, is Seth beginning to get this specific in his interpretation of test data.)

[...] But it will harm him in no way to help Mark in his endeavor.

[...] However he felt quite guilty over this, for the man is a Negro, and he feared that his dislike would be taken as discrimination. [...]

Man’s thoughts no longer seemed to have any effect upon nature because in his mind he saw himself apart from it. In an ambiguous fashion, while concentrating upon nature’s exterior aspects in a very conscious manner, he still ended up denying the conscious powers of his own mind. He became blind to the connection between his thoughts and his physical environment and experience.

You do not dissect a pet cat or dog, so when man began to dissect the universe in those terms he had already lost his sense of love for it. [...] Only then could he examine it, you see, without qualm, and without being aware of the living voice that protested (Jane now spoke in a much louder and deeper voice temporarily); and so in his great fascination for what made things work, in his great curiosity to understand the heredity of a flower, say, he forgot what he could [also] learn by smelling a flower, looking at it, watching it be itself.

[...] On Monday and Wednesday evenings he furnished material on this book, plus some personal material for us; discoursed at length Tuesday night in ESP class; spoke briefly Friday afternoon to a visiting editor from Time magazine — subject, Freudian psychology; and on Saturday evening talked informally to a group of our friends about daily life in Italy during the time he had been a minor pope in the fourth century a.d. [Reincarnation-wise, Seth had first mentioned his papal experience in an ESP class session in May, 1971. [...]

[...] We’d been discussing current population problems when Seth came through to tell us that in the fourth century, infanticide — at least to his knowledge — had been quite common. [...]

[...] His present parents were his brothers in the American Revolutionary period in the same geographical area as now. His brothers were involved as spies. [...]

[...] “Now he rationalizes his desire not to leave home. [...] His secrecy [he was very tight-lipped] is the result of these past experiences. [...]

Seth emphasized that for his own reasons, Frank did not want a marriage relationship, and ended by telling Doris that she had chosen him for this reason—that she never saw the man as he was, but only the image she had projected upon him. He gave Frank’s name in a past life as Achman incidentally, and much later Doris learned that his present family has an Achman branch.

Seth had previously given us some information about Matt, his publishing company, and his associates. [...]

[...] Before though, the fact escaped me that Seth had started Mass Events—representing his and my direct attack on official dictums—or so it seemed to me. [...] I accept everything in the book—his opinions on medicine, etc.—but I think I felt that if I was going to tell it like it was—and I was, was determined to, then I also needed more protection from the world—and began cutting down mobility again. [...] This idea also came back, reading a book on William James Peggy G. gave me for Xmas—his attitudes and mine so often seem similar—that he was determined to be daring, press ahead no matter what, explore consciousness—while at the same time being attracted to safety, disliking controversy, wanting peace, etc. [...]

(We have a lovely quiet Xmas—Gallaghers here Xmas Eve—four inches or so of snow, Joe and Margaret here last PM—pleasant—I give Rob his planter thing; we get the bed. [...]

[...] He has not been using his full abilities but he is now learning that he must do so if he is to develop, and if he is to do his best by you, for you are my students, you see, as well as his. [...]

[...] In one sense you are not divided or separated and you will gain from his added development for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you have never understood before. [...]

[...] I had originally suggested the day after his birthday to end his smoking habit, simply because it would be relatively easy for him at that time. [...] The personality hangs on to his small indulgences, but good sense will rule the day.

To think that all these years his good disposition has been dependent upon the cigarette between his lips, and not upon any native good spirits. [...]

[...] His bodily impulse to move and to go to the bathroom was even stronger. [...]

Lunch, and he took his shower—something else he had put off doing. [...]

[...] He had the sense to write his notes, however, so the issue was not buried. [...]

[...] His mood was so bad because he felt that he could not win no matter what he did. [...]

He is not driven, but he knows his abilities and how to use them, and he knows how to retain his integrity in society... Not to fear selling his soul to the devil. [...]

[...] There was an interruption now as the paperboy called, while making his rounds collecting.)

[...] He is no longer blocking his own opportunities, so the further development for which I have spoken will shortly come about.

(Here Seth refers to the copies of sessions concerning John and his company, Searle, that John has carefully kept. [...]

His appetite has improved, and he is assimilating his nourishment better than he did before. [...] Tell him that he can indeed see his way clear (intently). [...]

Now: Ruburt should remind himself that he has good blood—thus negating his mother’s statement that his father had poor blood—

Again, remind Ruburt to say now and then to himself that he can see clearly, that he can see his way clearly, knowing that the inner self has the clearest of vision, and that vision can be recreated physically. [...]

(“How about his dream last night, in which he was walking?”)

Because of some of mankind’s curious characteristics, often it does not change unless his life depends upon it, unless survival is threatened. He will be forced to recognize, use and develop his paranormal abilities simply to survive, and in so doing will release them finally for his own benefit and the benefit of his fellows.

(John Bradley was a witness to the session, and part of the material deals with John’s relationship with his employer, Searle. [...]

[...] He will want to know what is going on in his neighbor’s head so badly that he will realize he already knows. [...]

(After the session Jane found herself giving some impressions on her own, again involving John and his company and related personnel. [...]

[...] His consciousness — his psyche — is projecting greater images of his own probable fulfillment, and these are seen in his changing concepts of God.

[...] When man knew no more than a simple tribal life, his brain already had the capacity to learn anything it must, for one day it would be responsible for the life of a planet.

1. Seth is letting his material automatically answer my question about early man; See Appendix 6, as well as Note 7 for Session 688. According to our dictionary, the geologic time span he indicates in tonight’s session falls within the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era. [...]

How does the human data from such very ancient times fit in with the comparatively modest dates — of “only” 50 million to 30 million years ago — that Seth cites for his mutated forms at the beginning of this session? [...]

[...] The car is also to him a complementary image of his father, who was always on the move, more so than most men, while his mother could not move at all. A lack of a car also makes him fear a return to poverty, since in his neighborhood any car at all was a sign of luxury.

[...] For his ideas are simpler and easier to explain. His mother could not leave the house. [...]

[...] He had his own business in Sayre, PA, and took great pride in the excellence of his work. [...]

[...] Perhaps some difficulty in his hypnosis experiments which had been going so well. For some reason however there seems to be better chances in his ESP card experiments, though not of as spectacular nature as those earlier achieved. [...]